Issue Apr 01-07 2026: Young agricultural workers in western Mexico are choosing to remain on their ancestral lands, despite low wages and the increasingly dire threats posed by organized crime.

Issue Apr 01-07 2026: During the week marking the anniversary of the 1964 coup, the two pre-candidates felt free to show their contempt for democracy.

Issue Mar 25-31 2026: As the fourth anniversary of El Salvador’s state of emergency approaches on March 27, a new report on the situation in the Central American country has been presented to the Commission of Human Rights in Guatemala and then the United Nations in Geneva.

Issue Mar 25-31 2026: Between 2024 and 2025, Colombia’s state security forces suffered 418 attacks from drones, far from being simply surveillance instruments, these lightweight airborne instruments have become invaluable weapons of war for non-state armed organizations, representing a threat for which the South American nation remains ill-prepared.

Issue Mar 25-31 2026: Four parliamentary commissions over two decades have already proven that organized crime’s weapons originate within the state itself; now, with a new CPI in the Senate, Brazil has the chance to stop ignoring the corruption within its own legal arms supply chain.

Issue Mar 18-24 2026: The death of the head of Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “Mencho,” promises to unleash a wave of chaos in the country as the power structure of organized crime there gives way to a “networked model,” with greater flexibility and the increased capacity to recycle and

Issue Mar 18-24 2026: Thousands of posters bearing the faces of missing persons blanket the streets of Guadalajara, in the Mexican state of Jalisco. Families place them seeking information and hoping to raise awareness of a crisis that accounts for nearly 131,000 missing persons nationwide. Now, they allege that local authorities are pushing for legal

Issue Mar 18-24 2026: Violence worsened in 2025. In various regions of the country, new disputes between armed groups became evident, while in others, existing conflicts intensified—with direct impacts on the civilian population: displacement, confinement, homicides, and kidnappings, among other consequences.

Issue Mar 11-17 2026: March 17 marked the 51st anniversary of the murder of Orlando Martínez, a journalist who worked in the Dominican Republic under the repressive Joaquín Balaguer regime.

Issue Mar 11-17 2026: In recent years, Mexico’s criminal organizations have undergone a process of international expansion; the Sinaloa Cartel, for instance, maintains a presence in at least 96 countries, while the Jalisco New Generation Cartel is present in 61. However, the reverse process has also taken place: namely, the arrival of foreign criminals and